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Hands-On Mobile Development with .NET Core

You're reading from   Hands-On Mobile Development with .NET Core Build cross-platform mobile applications with Xamarin, Visual Studio 2019, and .NET Core 3

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789538519
Length 504 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (26) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: .NET Core and Cross-Platform Philosophy
2. Getting Started with .NET Core FREE CHAPTER 3. Xamarin, Mono, and .NET Standard 4. Universal Windows Platform 5. Section 2: Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms
6. Developing Mobile Applications with Xamarin 7. UI Development with Xamarin 8. Customizing Xamarin.Forms 9. Section 3: Azure Cloud Services
10. Azure Services for Mobile Applications 11. Creating a Datastore with Cosmos DB 12. Creating Microservices Azure App Services 13. Using .NET Core for Azure Serverless 14. Section 4: Advanced Mobile Development
15. Fluid Applications with Asynchronous Patterns 16. Managing Application Data 17. Engaging Users with Notifications and the Graph API 18. Introducing Cognitive Services 19. Section 5: Application Life Cycle Management
20. Azure DevOps and Visual Studio App Center 21. Application Telemetry with Application Insights 22. Automated Testing 23. Deploying Azure Modules 24. CI/CD with Azure DevOps 25. Other Books You May Enjoy

Extending the reach

Finally, since we are talking about Xamarin, it is important to mention that Xamarin and/or Xamarin.Forms do not bind the developers onto Android and iOS phone or tablet devices. By using Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms, developers can target devices, varying from simple wearables such as smart watches, to IoT devices and home appliances.

When developing applications for iOS or Android-based appliances, exactly the same toolset can be used, while more specialized platforms (such as Tizen) can constitute a target platform, given that the .NET Standard implementation exists natively:

https://developer.tizen.org/development/training/overview#type /  [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]

Tizen implementation is also a nice example of .NET Core being used by Xamarin.Forms and the Linux kernel.

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